Q and D (2)...

Einsturzende Neubauten: Kollaps

Q and D (1)...

Brian Eno: Here come the warm jets

The Bristol Sound...(slight reprise)...

And talking of The Bristol Sound, head over to the excellent Spoilt Victorian Child where there is a synchronicitous (okay, actually just coincidental) Tricky post(a cover of lovecats).

The Bristol Sound...

I moved here in 93. Everyone was talking about Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack - everyone outside Bristol, that is. The talk was about them representing The Bristol Sound, but (as I remember it), that was bollocks. The band everyone here were going to see was The Moonflowers, and the soundtrack of the Summer of Bristol 93 was dominated by Miles davis - Amandla, We want Miles and particularly his last album Doo Wop. I'm sure jazz purists hated it - it is a commercial, accessible album with hip hop beats and raps that frankly were a bit Kenny Everett, but it all hung together really well and was threaded through with that trumpet...

Miles Davis: Sonya

WTF Wedneday: (Slight Reprise) (Slight Reprise): Elvis...

I see it like this - he was a big fat drug addict who couldn't remember the words to even his most famous songs...Some spod has set up an autocue, and mischeivously put down the wrong words...quaaludeElvis doesn't notice, and hence the biggest fit of the giggles in the history of the King...(but then again, I'm quite unkind - if anyone knows the real story, please share...)

Elvis Presley: Lonesome Tonight (Laughing version)

WTF Wednesday (slight reprise)...

I got my days mixed up yesterday (it's what happens when you work shifts) so here's a link (c/o Done Waiting) to a genuine WTFer...

The Party Party/George W. Bush: Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 cover) (link is to page, not song)

making the bad good...

I never thought the day would come when I would post *anything* even remotely connected with the uber-vile Queen or their pantorawk ugly sisters Kiss, but here goes...

Loo and Placido are the leggers legger, and this shows why...with dubbed up reggae (lifted from uptown topranking and perryed to fuck), Queen (shudders) and some kid, this shouldn't work but it does - magnificently...

Gloomybear is allegedly one of Lionyl Vinyl's many alter egos. He has turned the dreary Kiss song Crazy nights (the dirges's dirge?) and given it an uplifting house makeover that Lawrence Llewllyn Bowen would eat his cuffs for...it's a joyful, gay summer anthem that will have the children dancing in the streets...

Loo and Placido: Kids Rock

Gloomybear: Crazy nights

WTF Wednesday...

is a bit tame this week - it's a case of "What? A minimilast composer remixed by a dancey dj? and it's not awful? in fact it's rather good? WTF?!"

Gavin Bryars: Raising the Titanic (Aphex Twin remix)

Interplanetary materials...

Mp3 album on the theme of Space featuring the like of Seksu Roba and...well, actually they're the only band I'd heard of...but the track by God Morgan that I'm playing now is great, and the track by Jan Turkenburg and his pupils from the bizarrely named Geert Grote School is ...interesting (in a Langley Schools Project with synths 'n' samples kind of way)...there's loads of stuff here, I havn't checked it all out yet but it *looks* like a classic...

Various Artists - Interplanetary Materials

(just realised this came out in April - you lot havn't known about this for ages have you?)

A song about traditional Sunday dinner?...

Psychedelia Smith: Fixy Jointy (Fatboy Slim mix)

Queen Mums of Pop No. 4: Cover versions by Carter USM...

Like some extra bombast with your pink Floyd sir? or maybe extra drum machines on the side with that portion of the Buzzcocks? Then it's the Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine covers menu you'll be after...They were very much of their time, and you couldn't sit through a whole albums worth even then, but the singles were great and frequently came with a cover version of something marvellous; they were breathtaking, joyful affairs full of energy and affection, and I suppose what was particularly unusual was that they tended to cover songs by their (near) contemporaries - the Smiths, The Sugarcubes, The Jam - or as here, The Buzzcocks and the only hit single Pink Floyd ever had...

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine: Everybodys Happy Nowadays (Live)

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine: Another Brick in the Wall